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Loving County

Verified county health data, each value with its year, adjustment and uncertainty, placed among Texas’s 254 counties.

County FIPS code
48301
Population, 2020 Census
64
Rural-urban classification (USDA ERS, 2023)
Code 9. Nonmetropolitan: urban population of fewer than 5,000, not adjacent to a metro area
Neighbouring Texas counties
Reeves, Ward, Winkler

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25 of 27 values are not published for Loving County

Sources withhold estimates when a population or case count is too small for a reliable or confidential figure. Vellora shows them as withheld, never as zero, and does not estimate them. Each section lists its withheld measures in a separate, labelled group.

  • Suppressed by CDC: Estimates suppressed for population less than 50.
  • Suppressed by CDC: Insufficient Data (a reliable rate could not be generated for this small population).
  • Suppressed by State Cancer Profiles to protect confidentiality and rate stability: fewer than 16 cases were reported over 2019–2023 (average annual count 3 or fewer).

Where Loving County sits

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Loving County · Deaths 2022–2024

Withheld

Heart disease mortality

Median Texas county
402.1 per 100,000
Range across counties
205.3–808.0
Counties with a value
253 of 254

The median county is a middle value of county estimates, not a statewide rate. Intervals and adjustment for each measure are in the sections below.

Heart disease mortality (Deaths 2022–2024), in quantile classes of reporting counties; darker is higher. Loving County is outlined. Hatched counties have no published value.

Cardiovascular health

Adults who report being told they have a heart or blood-vessel condition, and the observed heart disease death rate.

4 measures not published for Loving County

Behavioral risk factors

Behaviours and body-weight measures CDC links with heart disease and other chronic conditions.

3 measures not published for Loving County

Other chronic conditions

Self-reported diagnoses and health status among adults.

6 measures not published for Loving County

New cancer cases

Observed cancer incidence from the Texas Cancer Registry, age-adjusted.

5 measures not published for Loving County
  • Cancer incidence, all sites (age-adjusted)Diagnoses 2019–2023. Suppressed by State Cancer Profiles to protect confidentiality and rate stability: fewer than 16 cases were reported over 2019–2023 (average annual count 3 or fewer).
  • Lung and bronchus cancer incidence (age-adjusted)Diagnoses 2019–2023. Suppressed by State Cancer Profiles to protect confidentiality and rate stability: fewer than 16 cases were reported over 2019–2023 (average annual count 3 or fewer).
  • Colorectal cancer incidence (age-adjusted)Diagnoses 2019–2023. Suppressed by State Cancer Profiles to protect confidentiality and rate stability: fewer than 16 cases were reported over 2019–2023 (average annual count 3 or fewer).
  • Female breast cancer incidence (age-adjusted)Diagnoses 2019–2023. Suppressed by State Cancer Profiles to protect confidentiality and rate stability: fewer than 16 cases were reported over 2019–2023 (average annual count 3 or fewer).
  • Prostate cancer incidence (age-adjusted)Diagnoses 2019–2023. Suppressed by State Cancer Profiles to protect confidentiality and rate stability: fewer than 16 cases were reported over 2019–2023 (average annual count 3 or fewer).

Social and access context

Measures that describe conditions around health, not health itself.

  • Persons below the federal poverty level

    Share of people for whom poverty status is determined whose income is below the federal poverty threshold.

    Survey estimate2020–2024 (pooled)

    Value

    6.1%

    90% margin of error 3.5% to 8.6%

    Among Texas counties

    median 14.6%lowest 4.0%highest 41.1%

    Below the median Texas county

  • Primary care Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designation

    How much of the county HRSA has designated as a primary care Health Professional Shortage Area: the whole county as a geographic area, the whole county for a population group (such as low-income residents), part of the county (census tracts or county subdivisions), or none.

    Administrative designationDesignation status on 2026-10-18

    Designation

    Whole county — geographic

    A designation category, so it is not placed on a scale.

Research connections

Vellora’s report Geographic Variation in Cardiovascular Health Across Texas Counties studied patterns across all Texas counties. One finding: nonmetropolitan counties had higher median values than metropolitan counties on 8 of 8 cardiovascular measures, including a median heart disease death rate of 415.1 against 361.2 per 100,000.

Loving County is nonmetropolitan (RUCC 9). That finding describes groups of counties, not this county, and county-level associations do not show causes or any individual’s risk. The report is an independent analysis and has not been peer reviewed.

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Crude and age-adjusted

Crude prevalence is the share of all adults. Age-adjusted prevalence estimates the share under a standard age distribution, so counties with older or younger populations can be compared. They answer different questions and must not be compared with each other. Placement among counties uses age-adjusted values where CDC publishes them.

How to read crude and age-adjusted figures

Sources and methods

  • PLACES 2025 release

    CDC PLACES county data, 2025 release (data.cdc.gov swc5-untb)

    BRFSS 2023 · Census Bureau 2023 county population estimates; ACS 2019–2023 or 2018–2022

    Source dataset

  • 2022–2024 (3-year average)

    CDC heart disease mortality county data, 2022–2024 (data.cdc.gov mri7-5jtw)

    Deaths 2022–2024 · Adults aged 35+; age-standardized to the 2000 U.S. standard population

    Source dataset

  • 2019–2023 (5-year average)

    State Cancer Profiles incidence, 2019–2023 (Texas Cancer Registry, SEER November 2025 submission)

    Diagnoses 2019–2023 · Census populations as modified by NCI (SEER population data); age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard

    Source dataset

  • ACS 2020–2024 (5-year)

    U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year Summary File, table B17001

    2020–2024 (pooled) · People for whom poverty status is determined

    Source dataset

  • Designations as of 18 Oct 2026

    HRSA Data Warehouse, HPSA – Primary Care: All HPSAs (BCD_HPSA_FCT_DET_PC), daily snapshot of 2026-10-18

    Designation status on 2026-10-18 · Areas and population groups designated by HRSA (not a population count)

    Source dataset
  • CDC PLACES values are model-based estimates from a national survey, not counts; CDC advises considering their confidence intervals and not ranking counties or tracking change over time.
  • The heart disease death rate covers adults 35 and over, is age-standardized and is spatially smoothed by CDC; no interval is published.
  • Only cancer incidence has a published statewide rate with the same definition, so it is the only measure compared with Texas as a whole.
  • A county is described as above or below the median county only when its whole interval is clear of the median; point estimates alone are never used to claim a difference.

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Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (data: National Vital Statistics System); Texas Department of State Health Services, Texas Cancer Registry; published by the National Cancer Institute and CDC (State Cancer Profiles, SEER submission); U.S. Census Bureau; Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health Workforce, Division of Policy and Shortage Designation.

County figures describe populations, not individuals. Vellora provides general education, not medical advice.